Near
Since
2018
About
Empowering everyday users with seamless blockchain experiences for a decentralized future
NEAR Protocol is a fully sharded, proof-of-stake blockchain designed for mainstream adoption. It offers high performance, scalability, and security, aiming to scale Web3 to a billion users through Chain Abstraction. This innovation simplifies blockchain interactions, making Web3 accessible and usable for everyone, driving mass adoption and unlocking the full potential of decentralized applications.
Use Cases
AI-native Apps Execution
Develop AI-native applications with encrypted model execution and verifiablecompute on NEAR's high-speed blockchain.
Decentralized Asset Management
Enable AI agents to own, manage, and transact digital assets fluidly across networks without traditional blockchain barriers.
User-friendly Blockchain Interaction
Simplify user interactions with blockchain via intents and chain abstraction,removing the need for wallets or tokens.
Privacy-first Application Deployment
Deploy privacy-centric, user-owned decentralized applications leveraging NEAR's modular and scalable infrastructure.
Key Features
Blockchain for AI
- NEAR is a modular, high-speed protocol designed for AI to act on behalf of users,handling identity, trust, and data on its blockchain backend.
- NEAR uses a dynamic sharding system for global-scale performance with finalityin under 600ms, designed for low latency and parallel execution.
- NEAR simplifies blockchain UX with intents, where agents define outcomes and NEAR handles routing,signing, and execution across any chain without wallets, bridges, or tokens.
- NEAR AI provides protocols, compute, and infrastructure for running autonomous agents,supporting encrypted model execution, verifiable compute, and multichain action.
- NEAR enables developers to build and scale AI-native systems using modularSDKs and open agent infrastructure.
Web3 Development Features
- NEAR offers a developer portal with documentation, examples, and tutorials toget started with NEAR development.
- Developers can use familiar programming languages like Javascript, Rust, andPython to build smart contracts on NEAR.
- NEAR provides chain abstraction tools to simplify the development ofdecentralized applications.
- NEAR supports a decentralized frontend stack for building Web3 applications.
- NEAR offers resources such as standards and proposals, GitHub repositories,and funding opportunities for developers.
(Co-Founder of NEAR)
Illia Polosukhin
Headquarters
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California
Website
near.org
600ms
transaction finality time
Thousands
concurrent agents supported
